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0 0 I Boston gunbay (globe CAMBRIDGE SOMERVILLE BOSTON IN THE MIDDLE I Our task was to get I these people to talk again. 7 OFF THE CUFF Councilor Gareth Saunders talks about the problems facing District 7, and his goals for the area Page 2 JAVIER SANCHEZ Mediator with the the Urban Community Mediators Page 6 MARCH 20, 1994 Councilor mounts his defense William Walsh offers an all-star lineup of witnesses at his bank fraud trial 4 rr: MBTA Lines EVERETT grf' "4l East Gr By Jennifer Kingson Bloom SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE ith testimony that touched on the city of Cambridge's hottest political topics WINTHROP including the last mayoral race and fense Tuesday, treating the trial's audience to an all-star witness lineup. Among the nine witnesses who spoke on Walsh's behalf were Reeves, WRKO talk show host Jerry Williams, former School Committee member Jane Sullivan and anti-rent control activist Denise Jillson. Even a Catholic priest and vice-mayor Sheila T. Russell's daughter-in-law, who used to work as a secretary to Walsh, took the stand.

Federal prosecutors have charged Walsh with 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy, and have set out to prove that the lawyer and real estate developer masterminded a plot to defraud the Dime Savings Bank. Witnesses for the prosecution have said that Walsh instructed them to falsify documents in order to obtain loans from the bank, which disallowed the types of second mortgages that Walsh's clients routinely used. But testimony has strayed far from the dry financial facts. Two of Walsh's former associates, Ann Jarosiewicz and Ann Frances Gottlieb WALSH, Page 7 LOGAN 1 i AIRPORT The 'new' Blue Line $467 million will be spent between now and the year 2000 rebuilding the 6-mile route. Wonderland: A $7 million renovation contract advertised for bid March 1.

Revere Beach: $7 million expected to be awarded this week. 00 Beachmont and Suffolk Downs: Joint contract of $24.9 million. Orient Heights: Still in the design phase. Wood Island: Demolition of the station started in November under a $10.4 million contract Airport: Still in discussion stage with Massport and the Central Artery-Tunnel project Maverick: Design stage. Mayor Kenneth E.

Reeves' defection from the Cambridge Civic Association the bank fraud trial of City Councilor William H. Walsh went into its sixth week in US District Court. Walsh and his lawyer began offering their de BOSTON Bo Bunion Harbor South I South End I Boston -I Mile i 'An elephant is a big animal, but it can be eaten one bite at a time. DR.JOANREEDE Aquarium: Design and discussion stage with Boston Redevelopment Authority and CAT. CE) State Street: Design stage.

Discusions with CAT and BRA. (D Government Center: Design stage. Discussions with BRA and Center Plaza managers. Bowdoin: To be closed. Date is dependent on completion of other stations.

GLOBE STAFF GRAPHIC A doctor's prescription for diversity SOURCE: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority JoanReede seeks color in medical field MBTA to begin $467 million Blue Line project By Jeff Kaptrowitz SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE ONGWOOD MEDICAL AREA The portrait body count Uat Harvard University's Francis A. Countwav Li- By Andrew Blake GLOBE STAFF tions will remain open during the project, and that passengers will be bused to Orient Heights Station in East Boston to board Blue Line trains to downtown Boston. Additional Marblehead-to-Haymarket commuter buses also will stop at Wonderland for passengers who prefer that route into Boston. "We're trying to keep disruptions at a minimum," Howell said. "The buses will run at just about the same times as the rush-hour trains, about 3Vfc minutes apart, and there will be a heavy police presence to keep traffic moving.

The route pretty much parallels the train route. It's almost a straight shot to Orient Heights in East Boston." The Blue Line, the last of the MBTA's rapid transit lines to be renovated, runs from Wonderland Station in Revere, through East Boston, to Bowdoin Station downtown. When the line opened in 1900 as a rail link between Maverick Square in East Boston and Court Street in downtown Boston, it was BLUE LINE, Page 5 Two Blue Line stations will be demolished and rebuilt, and one station will be closed for good in the largest reconstruction project in the 94-year-old line's history. The $467 million project will modernize much of the line and increase passenger capacity by enabling the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to operate six-car trains rather than the current four-car trains. Starting June 25, the four stations on the northern end of the line Suffolk Downs, Beachmont, Revere Beach and Wonderland, which serve 14,000 passengers a day will be closed for a year, MBTA officials said.

The plan calls for Bowdoin Station to be closed permanently. Beachmont Station and the viaduct over Winthrop Avenue are slated for total demolition and reconstruction, as is Wood Island Station in East Boston. Project manager William T. Howell Jr. said that commuter parking facilities at those sta brary of Medicine is enough to make doctor Joan Y.

Reede drop her stethoscope. Fifty-six men, one woman. Not one of these regal paintings depicts a person of color. Yet in 1994 America, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is African-American, and medical school campuses have started growing diverse. Even if Reede never lives to see a black medical pioneer displayed alongside professor Harriet L.

Hardy in the Countway portrait gallery, she won't feel guilty. Reede, a pediatrician-turned-child psychiatrist-turned-health policy researcher running the medical school's minority faculty development program, has a clear mission: Help diversify the health sciences by bringing young people of color into elite medical schools, biomedical companies and health research teams. At Harvard Medical School, Latinos, Native Americans and African-Americans now make up 18 percent of the overall enrollment and 20 percent of the current first-year class, nearly twice the national average. Among faculty, these groups make up 3.2 percent, which falls just below the national average. (Harvard Medical School says it does not consid-REEDE, Page8 fe- i 1 1 1 jr Marketing Boston in conventional way GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JANET KNOTT Dr.

Joan Y. Reede with patients Tanecia Reld, 2, and Nyesha Reid, 4, at Children's Hospital By Sandy Coleman GLOBE STAFF A meal ticket for those living with AIDS By Howard Manly GLOBE STAFF ITillie Burton was born and raised in I A Jackson, Mississippi He came to ton's image and bring in minority meetings and conventions. At stake, according to the bureau, is about $3 billion annually during economically tough times. "We've been working on this since 1988 with no fanfare, with a lot of frustration, and we have had great results," Pierce said last week. Before the Multicultural Initiatives Committee was created, Boston drew only four national conventions from 1982 to 1988.

From April 1991 to July 1993, however, the city has hosted 13 minority conventions, including the NAACP Youth Conference, the Jack Jill National Convention, and the Organization of Black Airline Pilots. That equals more than 10,000 CONVENTIONS, Page 3 Boston years ago and began work WW In 1988, when the Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau launched its efforts to convince minority organizations to hold their meetings and conventions here, the perception of the city as a bastion of racism was a major impediment "Are you crazy?" was an initial response Rudolph Pierce remembers receiving from some minority convention planners in the early days of a campaign that now is meeting with success. Pierce is chairman of the visitors' bureau's Multicultural Initiatives Committee, a cross-section of business, civic and tourism representatives created in 1988 to change Bos- mm loved to cook," he boasted in a recent interview. "I could cook anything. I was the top chef at the hotel." But five years ago, he became sick.

He went to a hospital, only to learn that he was, infected with HIV. He later learned he had AIDS. It's not a big deal to him anymore. "Just something you gotta deal with," he said. "It bugged me for a while.

But I don't let it bother me. I accepted it and deal with it" A lot of things are gone from his life these days. And cooking, one of his joys, is almost a memory. But for the last two years, Communi ing a succession of jobs, usually ty Servings, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, has served daily hot meals to Burton and about 250 other folks unable to serve themselves, their bodies too sick to leave their homes or summon the strength to fix something to eat Good meals. Almost gourmet Even Burton grudgingly concedes that the meals are "pretty good." Burton said he could still rustle up something if he had to.

"Fve always had a roof over my head and food in my. refrigerator," Burton thundered, his pride stronger than his thin MEALS, Page 9 with his hands, until he began cooking in the kitchen of the Sheraton HoteL Things were going well He became a chef, and his job enabled him to send money to his two sets of twins, who lived with their mother in California. "Man, I Urban Oasis: A sweet oasis the International House of Pancakes Boston high school students who made the honor roll for the most recent marking terms are listed Page 4. Boston Notes 6 Brookline Notes 12 Cambridge Notes 6 Somiervflle Notes 12 Night Day: The History Notebook dusts off the day the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham BelL Page 13. i Restaurant Page 14..